Orlic’s reprimands
Rakic stood up and addressed the President of the Parliament Orlic and the ruling majority: “What children, exactly, are you concerned about? In the 1990s, you sent my classmates to war…”
I have a 15-letter word – corporatization
A great mystery has been solved. “External factors” are not to blame for the situation in public companies. We are to blame, “we brought this about ourselves”, concluded Ana Brnabic a few days ago.
In Memoriam Vladimir Gligorov (1945 – 2022)
wiiw – He worked every day… Being a cinephile and loving his family was the closest he came to the everyday life of an average person.
Yet another October 22
DwP – I’m supposed to write about October 22, 1992. On that day the paramilitary group Avengers, led by Milan Lukic, abducted sixteen people. They abducted one man the night before.
Russian lessons
Prilepin said that his intention was to write a book about love, but it turned out to be about war, because “anything a Russian takes up, eventually turns into fire from the Kalashnikov.”
Strictly confidential gobbledygook
The Government made the decision to hire a consultant to solve the “energy challenges” and entrusted the job to the Norwegian company Rystad Energy for 1.55 million dollars.
The birth of the Belgrade CircIe
DwP – A group of Serbian historians began collecting documents about the anti-war movement in Serbia in the 1990s and the Association of Independent Intellectuals Belgrade Circle.
Happy fearmonger
In a panicked frenzy, the ruler warned us about a series of disasters headed our way. His panic scale is calibrated at the scale of cataclysms and apocalypses, unavoidable biblical prophecies…
Dubrovnik – History with a vengeance
DwP – Every October 1, a ritual takes place in Montenegro. They show footage on the Montenegrin aggression against Dubrovnik, hold round table discussions, NGOs give out press releases.
Winds of change in B&H
The two main pieces of news from the elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the victory of Denis Becirovic and changes to the Election law imposed by High representative C. Schmidt.
Radoslav Brdjanin – contribution to crimes
The day before yesterday, the news arrived that this prematurely released Hague convict died in B&H, but it was not possible to hear or read anything about his war efforts for which he was sentenced to 30 years.
Let’s cleanse the soul of Europe
The only one who still hasn’t received a St. Sava medal is Erdogan. The Serbian church has already placed medals on the breast of Putin, Lukashenko, Vucic, Dodik and now Victor Orban.
Walk for Russia
The Belgrade “walk for life” had almost no banners against EuroPride – it was primarily a symbolic message to Brussels that Vladimir Putin is present and easily managing the regime in Belgrade.
Why I left
At the other end of the table I saw hands. He told me that he was sorry about everything that happened and warned me not to talk so much about it in the media, since it affects the investigation.
The Storm post festum, notes from an abandoned land
As sad as it may be, an identical article could be written about Operation “Oluja/Storm” on the occasion of its anniversary every year…
Adila’s bullet-proof şalvar
DwP – An Albanian woman from Belgrade, a Serbian man from Bor, a Serbian couple from Gracanica are sitting together in Durrës. It sounds like a joke, but we are somewhere halfway to reconciliation…
Peace and unrest
Slavoj Zizek shows how much peace can annoy the advocates of the idea that Ukrainians and Russians should keep dying until they prove their hypothesis about the futility of peace.
Road to nowhere
Peace in the Balkans won’t be a given for long. Russia’s increasingly certain victory in Ukraine will give an additional push to everyone in Serbia who believes that a “revision of the defeat” is possible.
First look from the inside
Our party got an office at Nikola Pasic Square 6, number 112. We don’t have internet, but we do have a fax machine, a television that doesn’t work, a desktop computer, and a box of floppy disks.
The issue of home
The moment a Polish soldier offers me a cup of soup because he thinks I am a refugee from Ukraine, I understand that Europe still hasn’t figured it out. He is heavily armed. He smiles.
Say terrorism
Is the international community organizing terrorist attacks in Serbia in order to force it to impose sanctions against Russia, or is Serbia faking these threats for its own daily political needs?
Internal dialogue 3.0
The AVtocrat’s “address to the public” is irrelevant. He will mumble the same things again, perform his political burlesque, clumsily play the statesman, pull his hair and take off his glasses theatrically.
What Putin said
The President of Russia explained to the Secretary General of the United Nations why he believes that the Russian military intervention in Ukraine is in accordance with international law.
Counterfactuals, a note in the spirit of Tolstoy
If one were to ask what they could have done in order for Russia not to invade Ukraine, the answer is game-theoretic. Chess is a good example…
Siege of Sarajevo – 30 years later
VIDEO – On April 5th, 1992, the longest siege of a European city since World War 2 began. It lasted 44 months, until December 1995. Over 11,000 people were killed, among them 1,600 children.
Debt
DwP – Sometimes I think I hear Milosevic when Putin is speaking. I am not struck by temporal confusion. Putin and his “Russian world” had Milosevic and his “Serbian world” as a precursor.
Electoral Neverland
Let’s start with the good news. There aren’t any. Let’s try again. Good news is that the regime no longer holds two thirds of the parliament and Vucic could not be declared a president-for-life.
Russian world
“The majority of the Ukrainian population, seduced by the siren call of Europe, has succumbed to the temptations of electoral democracy. Russian troops started a war to free it from these illusions.”
The perverse logic of justifying aggression
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is as contrary to international law as the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. These are all examples of aggression.
30 years of the Erased in Slovenia
DwP – On February 26, 2022 was the 30th anniversary of the secret state project of depriving citizens of non-Slovenian heritage of their civil rights and expelling them from Slovenia.
Cain’s campaign
The Orthodox armies of the Third Rome did not withstand the threat of the West and struck first, to return Ukraine to the Russian world. What could Cain have thought before he killed Abel?
Territories – the Munich moment
The explanation for the occupation of Ukraine, if it happens, is that the rights of the Russian minority are endangered. The comparison with Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is obvious.
